Joe Walsh Quotes
Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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I'm very candid.
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When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
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It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.
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Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
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As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.
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Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.
